“[…] The creation of her works achieve the perfect union between art and technique: the expression of thoughts conjured up from the very creation process of each piece. The different elements of graphic design (colour, typography, materiality, public space) act as technical and artistic tools to tell something. It is almost an alchemical creation with…
Read MoreFanette Mellier is the guest of Aude Lavigne, on December 27, 2017, in the radio show Les Carnets de la création on France Culture.
Read MoreOn the occasion of Fanzines! Festival, launch of the book “Le Papillon imprimeur” by Fanette Mellier and Éditions du Livre at the Librairie-galerie Les Trois Ourses on october 15, 2016. Exhibition: 15 october – 15 november.
Read MoreDuring Fanzines! Festival, on october 17 2015, book launch of the book “Au soleil” (In the sun) by Fanette Mellier and Éditions du Livre at the Librairie-galerie Les Trois Ourses. (Photo: Ianna Andréadis)
Read MoreFanette Mellier, 2022
48 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Four-colour process printing + 4-color Pantone printing
Hardcover, brilliant foil
ISBN 979-10-90475-31-1
Nuit du livre Prize 2023
Panorama is the contemplation of a single landscape printed 24 times, once for each hour of the day. Page after page, the changing colours reveal the passing of the hours and the little miracles that are part of any given day in a life. On this particular day, the gentle warmth of a spring afternoon gradually gives way to the evening’s nocturnal frost; nature awakens and eventually drifts back to sleep. There is an element of child’s play in the observation of changes in the details from one page to the next: the cabin, the clock, the cat, the ball, the firefly… and the list goes on! Fanette Mellier’s Panorama is a world in which layers of ink reveal a subtle yet intricate spring day.
Read MoreFanette Mellier, 2022
64 pages, 21 x 20 cm, 8-color Pantone printing
Hardcover, foil
ISBN 979-10-90475-33-5 (Third edition)
Dans la lune depicts a lunar cycle with simplicity and elegance, proposing a sensitive progression through the lunar month with a combination of 8 colored inks. When the moon is waxing, the edges of its white surface are overlayed with a subtle palette of tones; when it is waning, its dark side is revealed through shadowy overprints. Fanette Mellier’s work oscillates between technical constraints and experimentation, science and pure poetry. These 30 November moons coincide with the month the book was released.
Read MoreFanette Mellier, 2021
48 pages, 16 x 22 cm
Softbinding, ribbon
32 die-cut shapes, 7-color Pantone printing
ISBN 979-10-90475-28-1
Herbier is a story which evolves over the course of several walks… And the book itself is like a home: the leaves, flowers, images and drawings collected and created outdoors find shelter between the pages. Fanette Mellier invites us to rediscover the plant world that surrounds us, whether during a walk in the city or in the countryside. This contemporary and playful version of a herbarium also works as an introduction for young children to the world of graphic arts, and includes 32 cut-out shapes that can be used to compose one’s own private garden.
This book is published with the financial support of the DRAC Grand Est and the Conseil Régional Grand Est.
Read More+ FREE : Au soleil 2, a text by Paul Cox edited by Fanette Mellier and published by the Librairie Petite Égypte on the occasion of the exhibition Au soleil et dans la lune.
Fanette Mellier, 2020
26 pages, 21 x 20 cm
6-color Pantone printing
Metallic gold foil softcover
ISBN 979-10-90475-24-3 (Second edition)
Dizygotic twin of the book Dans la lune, Au soleil transcribes a daily solar cycle in 6 colors. Fanette Mellier proposes to assess the radiation of light as color expansion: from morning blue to sunset purple, sun halos permeate the atmosphere with incandescent colors.
Read MoreFanette Mellier, 2020
32 pages, 6.5 x 8.5 cm, 6-color Pantone printing and gold hot foil stamping
Debossed canvas cover
ISBN 979-10-90475-29-8 (Second edition)
+ Matriochka masking tape, 15mm x 10m
Grand Est Book Prize 2020
Matriochka is a small book that tells a very short, but very intricate story. 16 Russian dolls shrink from page to page, the last one measuring only a few millimeters high. Fanette Mellier invites us to explore this multicolored family in microscopic detail. Observed under a magnifying glass, the ordinarily imperceptible details of the printing become the motifs that cover the tiny figurines. This book, in which hot gilding skips a generation, speaks of singularity and transmission.
Read MoreFanette Mellier, 2018
50 pages, 21 x 18 cm, 10-color Pantone printing
Hardcover, transparent foil
ISBN 979-10-90475-22-9
Out of print
Aquarium invites the reader on a magical tour through 12 fish bowls, each of which is inhabited by unusual graphic species. On the front side of each translucent page, we discerne the discrete grey silhouettes of aquatic animals. When the page is turned, the silhouettes are replaced by colourful geometric shapes. But as the page is turning and light shines through, forms and colours merge, and the abstract compositions become a veritable aquatic theatre. A captivating series of dreamy graphical illusions.
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